Don’t press skip: April music highlights you may have missed
Bridget Long/File
Music beats Lauren Harvey and Ian Fredrickson are here to guide you through the April music releases you won’t want to skip.
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Björk’s Cornucopia confronts crisis, embraces eclecticism
A constellation of avante-garde artistry and important warnings about the abuse of nature’s delicate balance, Cornucopia burned awe and dread into the audience’s collective mind.
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Lady Gaga’s ‘Dawn Of Chromatica’ is worthy, superior take on its innovative predecessor
By including such a numerous amount of up-and-coming faces within the experimental scene, the record plays as a joyful celebration of what the future of popular music has to offer.
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Queer bait
Fake Out
Growing up, I collected queer-feeling art like trading cards. Musicians like Arca, Lou Reed and Sleater-Kinney are coded as distinctly queer performers. I’ve taken their work in deep, ingesting their explicit, vocal queerness with relish. They performed their queerness as icons and as artists in bold, daring and highly visible
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Arca’s ‘Mutant’ morphs cacophony into pleasure
Arca’s Mutant, released on Mute Records, survives in the in-between, in uncertainty. The album spatters spasms of erotic pleasure and is both claustrophobic and expansive, tense and freeform, shapeless and full. In all these underlying contradictions and tensions, an untouchable and digital entity organically forms and propels listeners into a
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